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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03
IMPROVED SEED CORN.
Its General Use Productive of q Revol,
ton Of the Corn Crop.

| Its General Use Productive of . Revolu--
| ton Of the Corn Crop.
| There is no doubt but that both the
quality and quantity of the corn crop
of the United States can be increased
fully fifty per cent. without increasing
the acreage. The way To bring about.
this result is to plant better seed and
give the growing crop better cultiva--
| ton. There are hundreds of farmers
who are willing to pay large prices for
| pig, calf or a colt, to improve their
stock. but they are unwilling to- give a.
dollar, or devote moments thought
to improving the best-paying crop OH
the farm. Pedigree pigs. cattle and
horses are all right, but let us. have q.
little pedigree corn to feel them
Farmers should select with great care,
the finest specimens from well-tlevel-
Oped stalks that mature first Select.
variety that is adapted to the latitude
it is to grow in. Many farmers. in
their eagerness to grow large stalks,
are satisfied to harvest SOFT woxtMess,
corn.
The writer has advocated for years,
the theory of planting medium-sized,
early, hardy varieties of Dent corn. 1t
is well-established fact that all early
varieties Of Dent corn are prolific in:
ears, while all large late varieties, have,
tendency to grow barren stalks. This.
rule holds good in all latitmles. Corn.
with medium-sized, short. stocky
stalks, well loaded with medxum-sizcd
ears. and small cob, well covered from.
butt to tip, is what we all want to sec..
On the other hand, field of corn with
large, tall, Overgrown stalks, with now
and then an ear stuck way up.at the
top of the stalk, is sure Indication of
light crop of soft, worthless corn
This is especially true in doubtful sea-
sons. 1t has been demonstrated that.
the largest and longest ears do. not,
produce the most and best corn. A
small cob. with long, deep kernels
compactly set on the cob, is what pans.
out the shelled corn.
In the year 1881, the most fsxerable>
season for many years in Northern.
Iowa. the writer harvested 1 ,OO0bushels.
of beautiful shelled corn from "a acres.
of land. A careful test was made off
LOCO bushels of the crop, and 20 pounds.
OF ears produced Is pounds Of shelled.
corn only 5 pounds of cob to every
seventy pounds of corn on the ear. or n
little more than 2 per cents of cob.
This is a remark hlo abo,v;, r.
high latitude as the extreme north of
Iowa. We have harvested several crops:
OF this corn since, that would shell 81
to s. pounds Of corn from 10
pounds OF ears. This vas not chance.
but the result Of many yeas of careful;
selection OF seed.-A. L. Goddard, s..
Prairie Farmer.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03
DEVELOPING HEIFERs.
The Best Kind of Feed for Young AMI
mails with First Calves.

The Best Kind OF Feeu IOE Ao~"S 0"S
mails with First Calves
There is no Setter way of preparing
food for mich cows than to run the
fodder through cutter; wet this and
mix the grain food with it. 1t is not j
proper way to feed the grain and fod-
der separately. :.
Yong heifers with first calves should
have cooling rations. such as will not
heat their blood. Corn meal may
properly be excluded from the ration.
In general way we can say that
heterogeneous folders, such as the various
clovers, are cooling folders; of grains
oats, barley. peas and the by-products
bran, middlings, malt sprouts and lin
seed meal.
The following ration would be well
adapted to these heifers: Is pounds
best clover hay, 8 pounds middlings
and 2 pounds linseed meal. This has a
nutritive ratio of l to 4.6, is rich in al
buminoids, and is well adapted to de-
veloping their butter yield. The feeder
should understand that development is
slow process. ard that any attempt
to force this development will be a
failure. He, no doubt, will desire to
watch their progress. To do this. he
must know their normal or natural
Weld of butter on an ordinary or
proper ration. He will. therefore, test
each of these hcifers for at least one
week to find her normal yield, and
from this he can note her progressive
development.
The ration above given is gagged for
these small heifers, weighing probably
about 700 pounds. 1t may be too small
a ration even for these heifers, after a
short time, but the food can be mixed
in this proportion, and then as much
can be fed as is necessary. Let me be
emphatic upon one point, and that is,
there should be no forcing. HeifeIs
that are healthy and have good ap-
petite, will often eat more than they
can digest and assimilate-the surplus
passes into the dropping-and is not
only wasted food, but has a strong
tendency to derange the digestive sys-
tenn. The skillful feeder must learn
how to determine whether the food is
utilized; and to know this, he must ex-
anime the droppings with moderate
magnificr. If he finds no digestible
food in the droppings. he knows the
food ;c oil acS;miIota6
The woody fiber which is indigestible
passes into the solid droppings, but he
can very easily learn to distinguish the
digestible part of the food from this in
digestible fiber. In developing heifers,
he will increase the food slowly, and
only when he finds that what he is feed
ing is completely digested. Then he
may infer that a slight addition will al
SO be digested and assimilated.
Having tested each of these heifers.
when he finds that the milk has in
creased, and produces more butter in
the aggregate, he should test them
again, and it becomes easy to note any
development. But he must not expect
a rapid development.-Country Gentle
man.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03

But three of the many hundred
American girls who have cultivated
their musical talents with view tn pro-
fessional success have become widely
known and Observation-Disclosures Van
Zandt, Emma Nevada and Ella Russell.
CHICAGO Herald.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03

Mime. Patti-Nicolini was presented
in Philadelphia with pair Of large
silver and bronze vases by the Welsh
born citizens Of the Quaker City.-RkiI.
GdelphiG Press.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03

"A London tailor has invented q
1ress-coat and waistcoat combined, by
which means the coat is kept in place
much better than when separate.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03

Football has been reduced to such
: science nowadays that every body
snd every thing is kicked but the bali.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26

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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26
a New Ditch for osoeoIa.

A surveying party in charge of Mr..
Brooks, of the engineering firm of
Brooks 6 Browne of Salt Lake, have
finished a preliminary survey of a new
ditch to take the water from Lehman
Creek to the Osceola placer grounds.
When completed-which will prob
ably be next Spring-it will be 81
in length and cost from $125,000 to
$150.000. This work has been in con-
temptation for some time and is now
forced upon the owners of the Osceola
placers by the excessive drouth that
has prevailed in that section for the
past two years. The ditch will convey
the waters of Lehman's creek in
Snake Valley along the easterly side
of jeff Davis Peak and down over the
Osceola divide to the west, delivering
the water at an elevation of over 1000
feet above the highest portion of the
placer grounds, and will furnish suffi-
cient water for working the plaeers
for nine months in the year, regardless
of dry seasons. The new ditch can
also be utilized as an enormous water
power for crushing the large bodies of
low grade gold quartz fer which Ose-
ola is noted, and thus prove useful in
forcing from nature her boarded gold,
whether in solid rock or in the gravel.
When this work is completed, Oscsola
will boom as one of the best mining
districts in Eastern Nevada.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26
STATE AND COAST ITEMS

Pinenuts sell for 50 so for a fifty
pound sack in Reno.
The Chambers Syndicate mines in
Butte, Montana, resumed work on the
7th, giving employment to 400 men.
Los Angeles has a coal famine re-
suting from a miners strike in the
Gallup, New Mexico, mines.
William James is under arrest for
robbing stage in Yellowstone Park
on the Fourth of July.
The Cheyenne Sun claims there are
ten million tons of lead ore in sight
on the surface of the Gilchrist mining
district, near that city.
Mason Valley mounted cowboys
rode into Pizen Switch saloon last
week and broke the lamp shades by
firing at them with pistols.
A coal field two hundred miles long
is said to have been traced in Montana,
reaching from the Big Horn Mountains
in Custer county, to the British line.
Griff. ]. Griffiths. former resident
of Eureka has recently sold piece of
land in Los Angeles for $969,500.
Better than booming wildcat mines,
Griff.
A branch of the Irish National Land
League has been organized in Virginia
City with large membership. The
admission fee is one dollar and the
monthly dues 20 cents.
Then en-year-old child of N. Low
cry, while drawing bucket of water
from hot water tank at the STANDARD
Works at Bodie, fell in and was scald-
ed to death.
Milk sells for twenty cents gallon
in Reno, while in Virginia the rate is
forty cents, and in Truckee and Carson
thirty-fve cents. In Taylor it is fifty
cents, but the chances for watering it
are not so good here.
The Chico Chinese are offered by
Gen. Bidwell free ground, free water
and 10000 feet of timber, if they will
locate outside the town limits.
The Supervisors of Mono county
offer a reward for the arrest and con-
viction of some person unknown for
the murder of Jean Patton on or about
the 25th day of July last in said
county.
Reno sports were bankrupted in a
poker game last week by an individ-
ual whom they picked up for sucker
but who proved to be shrewd Colo
RADIO gambler. An examination of Q
deck of cards left by the stranger dis
closed nine aces. No slouchy individ
ual can now get into poker game in
] Reno.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26
THE BULLION HOMICIDE.
George w. Lewis on Trial for the MUIR
der OF Plccoli.
[Elko Independent, Nov. 2ist. ]

Elk0 independent NOV. 2lst.
The trial of Geo. w. Lewis for the
murder of an Italian named Piccoli at
Highland. near Bullion in Railroad
District, on the Cd of last September,
is drawing to close and soon the case
will be given to the jury for their con-
sideration. There is one popularity
about the defendant which is the sub
jeet of remark, and that is the stolid
indifference which he has maintained
throughout the trial. Those who have
bad an opportunity to watch him
closely during the various phases of
the proceedings have observed the
perfect indifference with which be
seems to regard everything connected
with the case, and his every appear
ance indicates that he is entirely I'M
concerned as to the result of the trial /;
even the presence of his mother, almost
paralyzed with grief, who at times is
so overwhelmed with the thought of
the crime and its consequences to her
son that she is unable to repress her
feelings, seems to produce no effect
whatever upon the careless and uncon-
cerned prisoner.
1t is difficult to account for this un-
usual demeanor on the part of the de-
PENDANT. II may result either from a
careless indifference to his fate, a
studied determination to- act part, a
spirit of reckless hravado or feeling
upon his part that he was justitiable
in taking the life of being.
The latter theory, however, is scarcely
tenable when We take into cohsidera-
ton that he who processes TO be so
Jealous of the character of his mother
that he stands ready to take the life of
one who in the expression of an cpl
tibet reflects upon her character, and
vet he is unmoved by her agony, her
tears and her means at the thought of
his impending fate. And with all his
chivalry aud sense of honor it appears
that he himself has not been entirely
free from bestowing the same or a
similar epithet upon those with whom
he was at enmity or against whom he
held a grudge. There is an old adage
that "what is sance for the goose is
sauce for the gander," and be who
stoops to bestowing upon his fellow
man a vulgar term rejecting upon the
character of his mother is not justified
in taking offense when the same cpl
tibet is hurled back in his teeth.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26
Lucky Mum bera.

There seems to have been a little
boom for Nevada ticket holders in the
last drawing of the Louisiana Lottery.
Taylor got away with $500, and the
Silver State says 1t is reported that
Patrick May, section foreman at COL
conda, has a ticket which drew q
$4,000 prize. Next comes the Eureka
Sentinel, and adds, that itwas reported
that II. Levy of that town had won
$4,000, but Mr.. Levy corrects the
statement by saying he has to be sat-
isfied with $15.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26

In another column will be found the
advertisement of Mrs. Yates, offering
her restaurant and clearinghouse for
sale. This property is one of the most
eligible locations in town and has al
ways commanded first-class patron
age. The house is completely fur
nished in all its apartments, but will
be sold furnished or unfinished as
desired. AgoOd bargain will be given
to cash purchaser. Mrs. Yates pro-
longed spell of poor health is her only
reason for wishing to cell the place.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26
THE NEW RAILROAD.
The Salt Lake and Los Angeles VIII
Go Through Egan Canyon.

The Eureka Sentinel of last Satur-
day says
We announced some time ago that it was in.
timsted that new railroad would pass within
twelve miles of Eureka within two years from
that time. We are now assured that the Salt
Lake and Los Angeles Railroad will be pushed
through rapidly as possible, all the right
they require having been acquired, and that II
will pass south OF here distance about twelve
miles. The road will be built standard gauge,
with steel rails and the rolling stock and
equipments will be both modern and first
class in every respect. The main line and
connections will be / 200 miles long. The Di-
rectors are w. 5. Mccormick, e. ID. Shell, j.
q. Sutherland, James Jack and Caleb w.
Isaac Trumbo, OF San Francisco and Messrs.
Stokes, Hunt and one other whose name we
did not learn, of New York. Among the party
who were here were hessrs. Houghton and
She'll, of the Directors; 9. A; Roser, Chief
pert; Major A. B. Litehfeld, and p. o. Ar
nold. We announced the departure of four
OF the viewing party for San Francisco in our
last issue. Mr.. Shell and the balance of the
purity left with the company's conveyance last
Saturday for Salt Lake. We learn that Eureka
will become q halfway place for supplies.
The News, too, is informed on pretty
good authority that the new road has
acquired all the rights of the Denver
& Rio Grande in White Pine county,
and that it will come over the old
surveys, pass close to Cherry Creek
and go through Egan Canyon. This
will give our county something over
100 miles of railroad and open to de-
velopment some of the richest mining
districts in the State.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26
Miners Wages tn Idaho.

The HALEY Times says: The first
of November has come and gone, and
the dreaded reduction of wages has
not occurred. For this all who are
settled here and all who labor will
will feel thankful--as it is better all
around-for employers and employees,
as we'll as for all in business, that
ruling wages should be sufficient to
enable the recipients to live comfort
ably and pay their bills promptly.
The employer receives better service,
the cmploye does better work and
more of it, and the merchant thrives
on his business. In the case of miners
especially, So so per day is none too
much the dangers to which they are ex-
posed considered; and at that rate the
mine owners can certainly clear a
profit, if their properties are yielding
at all.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26
Awholssals sheep ThleE.

George ID. Winters offers reward
of $500 for the arrest, and the Nevada
1--we Stock Association an equal
amount for the conviction of Singleton
Pauley, who stole n flock of sheep from
Winters ranch in Surprise Valley.
Pauley is described as being SS years
of age. feet 10 inches in hight, weight
about 1870 pounds, light hair and eyes,
full beard, rather heavy, and of red
dish tinge. He is a little stoop-
shouldered, does not use tobacco
drinks but little, is very reserved and
talks slowly, is slouchy in appearance
and a native of Kentucky. Any in
formation concerning him sent to
Sheriff Fellows will receive prompt
attention. = Silver State.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26

In fight between two Piute Indi-
ans from the Big Muddy at Panaca
last week over the affections of a
dusky daughter of the desert, one of
the combatants was killed.
The cattle industry of the United
States represents 81 200, 100000.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26

eE Office of Nevada Stage and
Transportation Co., and Wells, Fargo
s. Co.'s Express.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26

Sol Hip has full supply of winter
goods arriving and to arrive. Call
and examine his prices. Also full
line of groceries, &c.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26
POsTOFFICE HOURS.

Nail opens 8 \, n. and closes l0P. i.
vao,s.ered mail closes ATTN.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26

Iwis ship a sample 70 tne-eae.s
trial on liberal terms. = shoasnn
, 1887-05-15
was scarce.

LII ~
In u letter to Governor Clinton Washington
wrote; "For some days past there has been
little less than a famine in the camp. A part
Of the army has been a week without any
kind Of flesh, and the rest three or four days.
Naked and starving as they are, we cannot
enough admire the Incompatible patience
and fidelity OF the soldiery, that they have
not been ere this excited by their sufferings
to a general mutiny and desertion."
One OF the army surgeons wrote: at was
with great difficulty that men enough could
be found In a condition fit to discharge the
military camp duties from day to day, and
for this purpose those who were naked Dor
rowed of those who had clothes. When a
miserable wretch was seen fitting from one
hut to another, his nakedness was only
covered with a dirty blanket"
Many fell sick; many died. Washington's
apartments consisted of two rooms; one was
used for business, and one for a sleeping
apartment for him and his wife. The rest of
the house was occupied by Mr.. Potts and his
family. AT last an addition was built-a log
cabin-which was used for a dining room.
Mrs. Washington, in a letter, thus described
the house: 1.-THE apartment for business is
only about sixteen feet square and has a large
FIRE place. The house Is built OF stone. The
walls are very thick, and below a deep east
window, out OF which the general can look
upon the encampment, he had a box made,
which appears as a part Of the easement, will
a blind trap door at top, in which he keeps
his valuable papers" This window depository
was still in the house in 1913.
1t was the privations endured there by the
soldiers, and the patience OF their p~erpleSed
commander, which has made Valley Forgs
so dear To the hearts OF American patriots,
, 1887-05-15

must say, in oil candor, that 1t is be-
ginning TO look TO me as II, between the
syndicate system, the ready plate system
and the growth Of excluH.veness and IA
yoritism, that there isn't n fair show for
the developing author. He may sally
forth as boldly MS ever with n free lance,
but he cannot get into the arena In which
he longs to deport. This exclusiveness
has reached such n limit that one or two
magazines state that they want nothing
that has not been specially ordered. In
other words, the writer with an estab-
hshed reputation is solicited to write an
article, with the privilege OF naming his
terms; the writer without n reputation
isn't solicited and isn't wanted on any
terms, no matter how excellent the article
he has to offer. / am speaking OF the
higher fields OF literature and not of Sc
rial newspapers; for it seems to me they
have dropped so far beneath mediocrity
that any tyro can figure In them provided
he knows how TO he improbable md sen
acknowledgements in Philadelphia
Call.
, 1887-05-15

1 hear a great deal of talk about heavy
American horses not being adapted to
the climate of Mexico, and l have been
told by local experts that a small, wiry
animal-pony build-was the only kind
that could be acclimatized. This is
all nonsense, I have been buying horses
in St Louis for years, and frequent
ly purchase in New York and Ken
lucky, wherever q fine coach horse can
be found. They all go t the City OF
Mexico, where they thrive wonderfully,
seeming to live longer and preserve APP
pearances after the time when, in this
latitude, they grow woolly and scraggy.
Patrick Levy in Globe-Democrat.
, 1887-05-15

A wealthy Boston gentleman had moved
out of town and located in n little village
community where the ways of life had al
ways been rather primitive and the expendi-
ture small. One day the assessors of the
town came to him, rather fearfully. They
didn't want to tax him out of the town, and
yet they proposed to have him bear his share
of the taxation. "Ah, gentlemen" said he,
after they had timidly pumped him a little
as to the amount of his property, "what is the
amount of money you have to raise here by
taxationfr Twelve thousand dollars this
year, SIR Twelve thousand dollars, chr
Well, send the bill to me and IN pay the
whole Of itp Not a single rustic in the place
paid any taxes that year, and the Boston
mar got of n good deal cheaper than he had
for some years.-Boston Transcript,
, 1887-05-15
Conductor and Passenger.

He bad nothing smaller than a 81
BILL" The conductor on the Flushing
avenue car made q critical examination VI
his features, and, ringing up the fare, re-
piled leisurely: "Well, / can change it,"
The passenger appeared somewhat SIR
prised, but CAV up his So bill, and the
conductor reached down In his right coat
pocket and drew out a huge handful o: 5
cent pieces. Fifty OF these coins We're
hand. A dive down into the left coat
pocket produced a handful Of dimes.
Twenty Of these were counted out to the
passenger, whose face assumed q look of
protest, while the other passengers began
to smile. Down into q pocket of his pan
falcons went the busy conductor and forth
came n larger handful than any that had
been called out before-of pennies.
The passenger who had nothing smaller
than a So bill now went into open rebel
lion. His hands were already loaded down
with small coins. He said he would cav
the car, and demanded his So bill. "But
ave rung up you fare, sir. Here is your
45 cents hat completes your change, p" and
the pennies were forced into the unwilling
passengers hands. He stormed md swore,
took down the conductors number and the
number of the car and asked the names
OF several of the passengers las wit
nesses." Then he discovered that he had
gone several blocks beyond the place he
had started for, and filling two pockets
with his 'change, " assuring the conductor
that this will be looked into, sir, " jumped
into a mud puddle instead of waiting to
ride ten feet further to a crossing. The
conductor quietly remarked to the pas
senger who was helping him to hold down
the rear platform Of the car: THAT moth
ing smaller than q i've is too old a game
for Henry. He'll have enough small
change the next time he wants TO ride
with me."-Brooklyn Eagle.